Photo: Darrylpearson · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Marion commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Only 2% work in Marion; the top destination outside it is San Antonio (27%, 24 miles). Marion has 249 jobs; 551 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Marion C+; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Marion at work: what stands out
The figures behind Marion’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Marion is better than 44% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Marion’s grade up (ahead of 83% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Marion’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Marion could be anywhere from C to B+.
Where in the region Marion works
About 27% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Marion by day and by night
On a workday 538 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 236 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Marion on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Marion’s working residents head each day
Where Marion clocks in
27% of workers
12% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The kinds of work in Marion
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marion, 2013 → 2023: 168 → 249. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Marion’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Marion takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marion workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 443 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Getting around Marion: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marion is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 481 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.2% of Marion households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marion’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Marion is 1,478th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,476 | Killen AL | 1,039 | $70K | 8.0% | 3.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,477 | Resaca GA | 1,145 | $58K | 7.4% | 0.9% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,478 | Marion TX | 1,101 | $63K | 16.4% | 2.2% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,479 | Brackettville TX | 1,327 | $69K | 10.5% | 1.3% | 19% | C+ |
| 1,480 | Brunswick Township MN | 1,397 | $92K | 8.6% | 6.3% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Marion, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Marion: questions
What is the median household income in Marion?
$62,788 (±$16,276) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marion?
16.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marion?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marion work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Antonio (27%, 24 mi), New Braunfels (12%, 9 mi), Austin (9%, 55 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marion walkable?
Marion is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marion without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marion, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marion
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.